I deal with passports all the time and agree with you. Many countries attach the old passport to your new passport and I’ve seen four of them all stapled together. Why is the airline going through your passport? That doesn’t make sense. The only people who should have any interest in where you’ve been are the customs…

A driver’s license is a fundamentally different document. Passports are made for stamps and how often does anyone dig through your passport and question the contents? I have a fifty plus page passport that is mostly full. It has unreadable smudges of ink that were meant to be stamos, random shit stapled inside, and…

I feel it’s important to note one thing: the average person does not pay $7.69/mo in bank fees. The average person pays nothing in bank fees because, according to this same survey, 73 percent of people don’t pay any bank fees.

It would be interesting to hear what the fee average drops to if overdraft fees are removed.  

That would be sweet considering what the R-controlled senate did with Obama’s supreme court nominations in 2016.

If you have a friend that is good at photoshop, ask them over and do everything wrong while they watch. Photoshop experts usually crack inside of 15 mins and take over whether you want to or not.

Question about use of the singular they... Assuming the question “can you direct me to <insert name>?” With gendered pronouns one might respond “[he/she] is on the second floor.” With the plural they one would say “they are on the second floor” is that also true of the singular they or is one expected to say “they is…

Plus, it’s mine and Google doesn’t have it’s grubby bots in it.

Just a note that shift-ctrl-v doesn’t work in Office apps. You have to use ctrl-alt-v and select “unformatted” (or whatever the equivalent language is) to strip the formatting.

Ahh yes, affluenza. (Mobile Kinja won’t let me link.)

For gaming news?  Yes.  This is no different than reading about a Football player getting a suspension for a completely legitimate reason on a Sports website.

Seriously, whenever I click on a link to Vice or The Atlantic, I have to be mentally prepared for somebody’s Pulitzer warmup essay, even for pretty simple topics.

It fits in with what seems to be the current mentality in people (at least in the United States, if not the whole democratic world), which is people don’t really care about their stated values. They don’t really care about freedom across the world, or climate change or human rights or leaving a better planet for the…

I give a fuck about the transition to video article format. I’d much prefer being able to read things. I can read an article three minutes that takes ten of viewing time.

There’s an even shorter version of this, that I figured out over 20 years ago: Cock your head slightly, and with genuine interest/curiosity in your tone, ask “In what sense?”

There’s an easier way: just ask them “Why do you think that?” after literally every sentence they say. Offer nothing. Bounce it all back. I’ve never had to ask it more than three times in a row before they gave up and walked away. It’s a real time saver.

Gee, if they are doing this, what are the chances they’ll update SyncToy? I used to love it’s dead simple setup and use. I’ve been wracking my brain trying to remember why I loved PowerToys about ten years ago. It had to have been for Tweak UI.

One thing I discovered years ago that has only been reinforced repeatedly is that little kids like talking to me partly because I use the exact same language with them as I do with adults. I don’t change my tone and I don’t simplify my word choices. They might have to ask me what a word means, but, you know, they…

Bumble is on the list for being like Tinder, yet Tinder is not on the list?

Warning: Last I checked, signing up for Verizon UP required (probably still requires) you to sign up for Verizon Selects as well. It’s their service that allows them to track essentially every single thing you do on your phone including tracking your browsing. Be wary.